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Baking is science and I don't like formulas, but cooking is art and anything goes...and the simpler the better. It's all about less time at the stove and more time at the table. With a forty year passion for food I'm excited to share what I do in the kitchen nearly every day.

Thursday, May 9, 2013

BBQ Roast Chicken

Spring brings dandelions, daffodils, and rum drinks.It also brings barbeque weather….so no need
to turn on the oven to roast that chicken.While your barbeque is preheating on high, rinse, pat dry, and cut away the
excess fat around the cavity of your chicken before seasoning with salt and pepper, salt and paprika, salt and garlic
powder, or whatever mixture of spices you’re in the mood for.Set the chicken in the back of the grill,
drumsticks pointing to the side, and immediately turn off all the burners except for the one furthest from your chicken, leave that one on medium before closing the lid.If you’re using a charcoal grill the
briquettes should all be pushed to one side with your chicken on the
other.If you have a thermostat built in
best to keep it between 350 and 400.From
here the hardest part is remembering to turn your bird a quarter turn every
twenty minutes, I use a timer.In
approximately an hour and twenty minutes you will have a very moist chicken
with the crispiest skin, guaranteed.In
the meantime, enjoy your rum drink.

To carve, lop off the wings, legs, and thighs at the
joints in that order.Then remove the
breast whole by sliding your knife from the top between the breast meat and
ribs carefully working your way down to separate and get as much meat off of
the bone as possible.It’s a cinch to
slice your breast meat thick or thin with the skin intact once it’s removed
whole.